ѣсти

Old Church Slavonic

Verb

ѣсти • (ěsti)

1. alternative spelling of ꙗсти (jasti)

Conjugation

present tense of ѣсти (ěsti) singular dual plural азъ (azŭ) тꙑ (ty) тъ (tŭ) вѣ (vě) ва (va) та (ta) мꙑ (my) вꙑ (vy) ти (ti) ѣмь (ěmĭ) ѣси (ěsi) ѣстъ (ěstŭ) ѣвѣ (ěvě) ѣста (ěsta) ѣсте (ěste) ѣмъ (ěmŭ) ѣсте (ěste) ѣдѧтъ (ědętŭ)

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• ѣ́ти (jě́ti), ѣ́сьти (jě́sʹti), ѣ́сть (jě́stʹ)
• є́сти (jésti) — alternative spelling

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁édti

Inherited from Old East Slavic ѣсти (jěsti), from Proto-Slavic *ě̀sti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ḗˀstei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed-.

Verb

ѣсти • (jěsti) impf (perfective зъѣ́сти)

1. to eat

Descendants

• Belarusian: е́сці (jésci), е́сьці (jésʹci)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ї́сти (jísty)
• Ukrainian: ї́сти (jísty)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1989), “ести, есть, есьти, ети”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 9 (дорогоценный – жеребей), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 225